Healthcare professionals should be aware of the elevated risk and poorer survival of CHD in Indians to individualize prevention and rehabilitation programs.
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May support ethnicity-aware CHD prevention in Indians; leaves open causal pathways for prospective validation.
A literature review utilising literary databases, World Wide Web and hand checking of written articles was conducted to determine the magnitude of the problem of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Indians with a particular emphasis on those in Australia. Health care professionals need to be aware that Indians have a higher than average risk of CHD at an earlier age and poorer survival and this is impacted on by genetic, social and cultural factors. The experiences of Indians with CHD needs to be researched so that prevention and rehabilitation programs can be individualised for this well developed community group in Australia.
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Mohan et al. (2003) studied this question.
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